The National Human Genome Research Institute has renewed its collaborative agreement with the Coriell Institute for Medical Research. For another five years, Coriell will continue to manage the NHGRI Sample …
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City believe their leading-edge repository of tissue samples can generate more answers for clinicians who treat children with inflammatory bowel disease. In …
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium (CFLTC) Biorepository and Registry. The CFLTC Biorepository and Patient Registry, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic, …
OpenSpecimen v8.1 has been released. Below are some of the enhancements included in the release: Specimen Collection Workflow for Clinic Coordinators Specimen Recieve workflow for lab staff Configure screens based …
Indian scientists have built one of the world’s largest Covid-19 bio-banks storing over 5,000 samples from SARS-CoV2 patients to support understanding of the disease and help domestic and global research …
Brain cancer recently passed leukaemia as the deadliest cancer for children. Yet there hasn’t been much progress over the years when it comes to understanding causes and finding treatments. Some …
Read this interview with Dr Marina Zaki, manager of Barrett’s Oesophagus BioBank at St James’s Hospital, Dublin. Marina talks about Oesophagus biobanking, how she developed an interest in biobanking and …
The first National Heart Failure Biobank (NHFB) in the country that would collect blood, biopsies, and clinical data as a guide to future therapies was inaugurated at the Sree Chitra …
For most people, a mild case of COVID-19 lasts less than two weeks. But some COVID-19 “long-haulers” face a range of symptoms — dizziness, brain fog, headaches and loss of …
The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) launched the Clinical Biospecimen Imaging and Genetic (C-BIG) Repository, one of the largest biorepositories of neurological disorders in the world, as an open-access resource for …